Fast and Easy Mod Backlit Blooms

Here are a few super fast and easy cards for those times when you need a card in a hurry. These first two cards are sample cards we offered for our make n take in Novi, Michigan. This would also be a great card to do as a stamp club project, it's great for all ages and skill levels.

Stamps: Backlit Blooms Orchid set (my personal favorite!)

http://starvingartistamps.com/doodle..._blooms_1.html

Flowers: Prima

Stampers Magic 1/4" red liner tape and Stamper Magic POP! Tape

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I made the velvet stripes using Stampers Magic Red Liner Tape then I loaded the tape up with black flocking. Tip: you need to pile the flocking on the tape and then use your finger in circular motions to rub it in. It's really great and you can make lots and lots of stripes. Make enough stripes and you have yourself some awesome corduroy. I use this technique a lot.

I used Stampers Magic POP! tape to pop up each layer of the flower, try this out yo will love how much fuller your flowers look when you pop them up. The tiny black center is a micro punch I bought a million years ago from ABC distributers.

This project uses the Backlit Blooms Dogwood and sentiment

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This next one is probably one of the fastest cards you will ever make.

Stamps: Backlit Blooms Daisy set

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Memento Tuxedo black ink pad

White gel pen

2 sketches final card

I really wanted to participate in the 2 sketches challenge since we are sponsoring this week and today is the last day. (FYI the prize this week is a complete collection of our Nativity set and coordinating sentiments AND a full pack of Sakura pens. Total value for this prize package is over $60.00!)

I started my card with the idea that I wanted to use a big glittery silver snowflake. I have been in a huge snowflake mood lately (stop back tomorrow for the blog hop and you will see just how many snowflakes I have used on my cards!) All the snowflakes are spellbinder dies. I used a mix of different flakes from 3 different sets. I used our 4" wide Stampers Magic tape http://starvingartistamps.com/stampers_magic_tape.html

To cover a piece of cardstock. Then ran that thru my cuttlebug with assorted snowflake dies. I had to use a couple of sheets of extra cardstock to shim it up and make it cut all the way thru but as you can see it worked.

Once I had them all cut I mounted each layer using 1/8" thick POP tape.

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I learned with my first snowflake its better to attach the parts together before you glitter it as it makes a stronger bond. So I layered each layer peeling off the liner so that each part was sticky. Once the whole thing was assembled and each layer was sticky. I dumped a container of ultra-fine silver glitter on it. I used a brush to dust off all the excess from the nooks and crannies.

I also made the glitter stripes using Stampers Magic Tape in 1/8" wide. I just ran the double sided tape where I wanted it and then added the silver glitter, again brushing off the excess. I love using the tapes for glitter stripes. Its much cleaner than using glues and the layer is even and not lumpy.

Products used:

Stampers magic POP! tape: http://starvingartistamps.com/stampers_magic_pop_tape.html

Stamps: DoodleFactory O' Holy Night Angel: http://starvingartistamps.com/o_holy_night_3.html

Stampers Magic Tape: http://starvingartistamps.com/stampers_magic_tape.html

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Tutorial- Painterly with Copics

I got a couple of emails asking how I colored my flower in my moms birthday card. I thought I would put up a little tutorial on how I did it.

While you can achieve this effect using other products like pencils w/ gamisol, watercolors or chalks I prefer to work in copics due to their blend ability and more importantly for me because they are waterproof and do not pill up your paper. I can be pretty rough when I work and I love being able to go back and forth between lights and darks as well as being able to lighten up the colors with the blender and being rather impatient copics are so fast drying I have instant gratification, something not possible with water coloring.

This is how I made Mom's painterly flower...

1. Stamp your flower twice in Memento Coco ink (I'm stamping on PTI 110lb paper)

2. go over your stamped flowers using the copic blender (in case you are wondering no, copic blenders do not work with other brush art markers like Tombow or Marvy, they are water based, Copic is alcohol based)

3. Add in your first color, I used Frost blue for this.

4. Follow up with other colors, I used Buttercup yellow and egg shell.


5. go over with the blender again, lightening up some of the color and blending it all. The juicier the blender is, the better this will work.

6. I put my colored flowers and parts on 4" Stamper Magic Tape, a must have staple for all paper crafters! You get a whole lot of it on that roll, it lasts for a looong time, its strong and does complete coverage of intricate images.

7. Once your images are cut out, I like to edge mine with a matching ink color. I used Sand.

8. I cut out the top petals and bulb and layered them on to my flower for dimension, mine is pretty flat but looks great in person, its subtle but really pretty. You could use pop up foam for this step, if so don't bother to mount the bulb and petal to the stampers magic tape first.

I figured while I was doing this tutorial I would finish the project and make a card for a friend of mine. There is another magic tape tutorial in the tutorials section in the labels at right.

Stampers Magic Tape Tutorial

We added a new product to the shop today. Its this great new double stick ultra thin, sheer, clear double stick tape called Stampers Magic Tape. I have been using this tape for a while now and can personally vouch for how awesome it is! Our friend Amy from Amy's Magic turned me on to this over at the Hampton Virgina Stamp show. When she closed her business she was kind enough to pass on her source for the tape so we are now fortunate enough to be able to carry it! Its really cool because its so thin (five times thinner than red liner tape) and super sticky. Amy used it to add gold foil, gold leaf, glitters and embossing powders to her projects. Its so sheer that once you lay it down and add your powders you don't even see the tape. It looks like you used glue but without the mess. I use it for... well.. basically everything. Mostly for mounting my layers and for sticking on small detail complicated cut images to my card. It comes in various sizes. I use the 4" roll and just cut off what I need. There will be more product information on the company blog www.starvingartistamps.blogspot.com

I mention the tape here in the gallery because I am posting our first (of what I hope will be many) step by step tutorials. This one is about... getting full adhesive on intricately cut images:

STEP ONE:

STEP TWO

STEP THREE

STEP FOUR
STEP FIVE

ALL RESULTING IN ...

A well stuck porcupine:

Images shown: Starving Artistamps Sentiments, DoodleFactory collection THE GREAT OUTDOORS... These images along with a bunch of other ones will be very shortly released. The sentiments are being proof read as I type.